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Trading volume has rocketed to a near-all-time-high on the CME cash-settled Bitcoin futures market as the number-one crypto by market capitalization continues one of its longest unbroken uptrends since the first half of last year. Tuesday posted over 23,000 contracts, worth $1.1 billion, according to preliminary data from CME Group, the Chicago-based commodities exchange that […]

A recent report reveals that Ethereum is becoming widely distributed, which could be a direct result of a spike in demand for this cryptocurrency. Ethereum looks fundamentally strong On Feb. 18, Coin Metrics, a crypto market and network analytics provider, released the latest version of its “State of the Network” report. There, the firm highlights […]

Career dotcom entrepreneur and serial bootstrapper Jesse Proudman is the co-founder of Strix Leviathan, a quantitative hedge fund that’s beating the market through software and systematic investing. Like so many entrepreneurs, Proudman may have found his initial concept as a reward for past struggles. Before his last company Blue Box was acquired by IBM in […]

Contents Protocol, a Korean crypto startup focused on content exchange, announced that it will shut down due to a lack of business prospects and regulatory uncertainties. In a rare bout of professionalism and solidarity, the company will be refunding their investors, distributing just under 27,000 ETH on a pro-rata basis. Korean content exchange protocol shutting […]

Throughout the past month, Ethereum has outperformed most major cryptocurrencies to become one of the best-performing assets amidst a strong bitcoin upsurge. Since Feb 1, within just 19 days, the Ethereum price has increased by 60 percent against the USD, from $185 to $280. What’s pushing the Ethereum price up? According to global markets analyst […]

The United States government underneath President Trump has taken an aggressive approach to the crypto markets, with the President himself claiming that he is “not a fan of” Bitcoin, while the Treasury secretary claimed that the lack of regulations surrounding the nascent technology constitutes a “national security” issue. This hostile approach certainly hasn’t done much […]

The Cardano (ADA) network has seen its network activity steadily rise this year, with metrics such as the number of daily active addresses, the total number of addresses, and the number of transactions all going up. According to data from IntoTheBlock, the network reached its ATH with almost 10,000 active addresses on Feb 12, which […]

Craig Wright claimed that Bitcoin is his intellectual property and that all of those that infringed on it (i.e. Bitcoin Core developers) are about to be legally prosecuted. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto outlined other equally ridiculous ideas in his blog post, including that all nodes and miners in the Bitcoin network are his personal agents. […]

Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto markets have been experiencing some intense turbulence over the past few days, with BTC’s recent drop below $10,000 halting the parabolic uptrends seen by many major altcoins. BTC’s bulls, however, have now stepped up and propelled the cryptocurrency off of its key support within the mid-$9,000 region, with its current […]

bZx, a DeFi lending protocol, was hit with a series of exploits. The attacks resulted in the loss of 3,581 ETH worth nearly $1 million. A series of unfortunate events On Feb. 14, the bZx team was alerted about a suspicious transaction that allowed the perpetrator to net a whopping $300,000 in profits. Julien Bouteloup, […]